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The Legacy 2023 star_border 6
After more than a decade living abroad, the director returns to Argentina to mourn the passing of his father, renowned artist Jorge Demirjian. As he dismantles his father's studio of over 2,000 artworks, old family wounds are triggered.

The Biological Invasions. The Case of Ovis Orientalis Musimon on the Island of Tenerife: « The Last Mouflon» 2023 star_border 2
The mouflon, wild sheep with beautiful curved antlers, were brought to the island as an attraction. Nevertheless, they should not be admired but killed – to add variety to the pursuit of game or control the species numbers on the island. One animal becomes separated from the herd – will it manage to survive? Based on real events, the animation combines the symbolic images of the animal’s escape with the drastic photographs documenting the harm done to the species in Tenerife. The atmosphere of fear and anxiety is achieved by means of pulsating music and black and white colours.

Killing Crabs 2023 star_border 5
Rayco, an 8-year-old boy, and his sister Paula, 14, kill time as they anxiously await crabs arrival in Tenerfe. But their mother has become pregnant by a foreigner and their lives could change before the crab arrives on the island.

The First Thing 2021
A friendship between Kookoo Rikoo, the only Arab Christian Israeli clown, and a war survivor, a Syrian girl.

Last Days of Spring 2021 star_border 6
The Spanish family Gabarre-Mendoza is celebrating a birthday, when it is interrupted by a police inspection. In ‘La Cañada Real’, a shanty town just outside Madrid, the inhabitants are forced to leave their illegal homes. Each member of the family struggles in their own way with their unstable position.

Confined Spaces 2019
An animated documentary about the space being occupied by religion in the Universe.

King Ray 2019
Paralympic Games, Sydney 2000. The Spanish basketball team wins the gold medal. A great lie in the History of sports. Raymond Torres was the captain of that team.

Goya's Skull 2018 star_border 7.5
Bordeaux, France, 1828. Spanish painter Francisco de Goya y Lucientes dies in his French exile on April 16th and is buried in the local cemetery. Nobody, not even his only living son, Javier, claims his body. In 1888, after years of paperwork, the Spanish consul Pereyra finally obtains permission to exhume Goya's remains with the purpose to bury them in Spain. When the crypt is opened, the gravediggers make a discovery as macabre as it is stunning…

Double Me 2018
Double Me is a film about the tragic misunderstandings between the Spanish colonizers and the indigenous peoples of Colombia, and the ramifications of those traumatic experiences. Based on manuscripts, photographs and films belonging to the Colombian ethnographer Gregorio Hernández de Alba, Rugeles pieces together existing and new footage in this documentary punctuated with fiction and stories. From FICCI

Failure 2017
The encounter of an ex-couple that haven't seen each other in five years. His name is Andrés and he's a film director. Her name is Lucía and she's an actress. They confront their past in a real-time conversation: a mingling of what they remember, what their dreams were, and what never happened — not even in their dreams.

The Calm Tempest 2016 star_border 8
They were frightened. Suddenly the sea became calm.

The Inflated Jungle 2015
A series of suicides among youths who had to travel far from home to go to school, shocked their indigenous community in the Colombian Amazon. They are different cultures in the frantic friction of our time, it is a generation of young people born from the meeting of both cultures who are hanging before the mirages of a foreign world.

An Entire Future Together 2014
Two men at the bar. They work in banking and have sold preferred securities in an undetermined amount. One of them, the general manager, is being harassed at his home. After several days of harassment, he finally has a revelation.

Stockholm 2013 star_border 6.3
The story of the encounter between a boy and a girl. He confesses that he fell in love with her at first sight, but she does not believe him. However, as they walk through the night in Madrid, they share their desires, secrets, and maybe a few little lies. But soon the film brings us back to the harsh reality of power struggles, psychological games and conflicts between the sexes. Stockholm thus offers an incredible reading of the relations between young people today.